Felt the same. I dropped the Witcher after 10 hours. A solid try, in my estimation. I usually quit games around the 2 hour mark if I’m not feeling it.

I was in a bit of a depressive rut when I started c2077 so I just kinda plowed through the beginning not knowing if I didn’t enjoy it because of the game itself or if I was on the edge of offing myself. Whichever reason it was, after the world opened up a bit I started to fall in love with the characters and story about 15 hours in. Which is a huge ask. If you’re into games as a storytelling medium, it’s a 10/10. On a mechanical level, it’s about a 7/10 for me. It’s ok throughout, and even really great for some of the set pieces.

In a past career, I was a mechanical design engineer; I’ve probably spent 10,000 hours of my life in SolidWorks. Not once did I feel like a 3d mouse would speed me up or otherwise solve my problems. I trialed a spacepilot for several months and just couldn’t be arsed after awhile. What do others get out of them?

Doesn’t matter if it’s visible or not- any laser capable of delivering enough energy to kill or otherwise disable a mosquito will harm your eyes.

My wife didn’t typically game in the traditional sense, but games she’s enjoyed in the past are the older Mario games, the Sims, and project zomboid (which she describes as the Sims but with zombies).

She’s also got like 100 hours in power washing simulator and she’s too scared to try Stardew valley because she knows it’ll consume her life.

even more of a doozy

What do you mean? As in, all the protagonists are unlikeable?

Of what?

Not being snarky, I genuinely want to know.

I think you read a bit of your own mood into everything here.

I have severe ADHD. I’d be unemployed without stimulants. In an ideal world that wouldn’t matter. But that’s not the world we live in.

I also have generalized anxiety disorder. Without medication, my body just decides that I’m going to spend my days and nights in fight or flight mode.

To think! I didn’t explain the universe of psychopharmacology and caveat every clause of the original post. the horror. I spoke authoritatively because the original author’s pattern of behavior matched my own experience. If someone wanted more information from me then, because this is a forum… they can just ask. You know, instead of going on an emotional screed, then falling victim to the exact same logical fallacies you got so mad about me for. You don’t know me or what my credentials or experience are. But here you are, making judgments about me based off of a few dozen words - The exact same thing you accuse me of doing in my original post. And not even for a good cause! For an imagined scenario, borne out by no reality but the universe in your own head.

To elaborate more on my original post (because I really do want to provide extra context and commented just before going to sleep originally), in my experience a lot of psychiatrists tend not to go straight for an ADHD diagnosis because they want to treat the symptoms that are presented to them initially. From the mouth of my own psychiatrist, he wouldn’t have tried to screen me for ADHD until about 2 years of other treatments not working to alleviate the symptoms of depression and anxiety.

I say this is someone who has visited maybe a dozen psychiatrists and tried about 25 different medications at multiple doses for my own issues… BEFORE being diagnosed with ADHD.

In a nutshell, the pattern goes like this for neurodivergent people (ADHD/'tism) (personal sample size of 4):

Early in life and maybe into early adulthood, you can manage pretty well or struggle along just fine to get through school. If you’re very intelligent, then you might even do really well at school since you never have to study.

At some point, neurotypical expectations become too much to handle. Since you’re young and not burnt out yet, you stretch yourself 110% to meet the demands on your cognitive ability.

Eventually it becomes too much. It might happen slowly or all at once, but it does happen. For me it was around age 25, just after I left college.

In the background of this pattern, You’ve always had a low level of anxiety or a fear of doing something wrong, along with the everyday stressors of things that are very difficult for a neurodivergent person to do but very easy for neurotypical. That low-grade anxiety just ratchets up over time and never quite goes away.

Long-Term anxiety, when left untreated, turns into depression just about 100% of the time- and that’s according to my current psychiatrist.

Some of the symptoms of depression are not necessarily suicidal ideation or tons of crying. It can manifest as you just sitting in your room and staring silently at a wall for 4 hours after work. Typically, the loss of enjoyment in everyday things such as typical hobbies, is a classic sign of depression. That’s straight out of the DSM-5. The same pattern holds for other typically dopamine-inducing activities not producing the same result in the depressed person. The inability to feel emotions in the moment is called alexithymia if eventually you do actually feel the feelings. The inability to feel joy is called andhedonia. These may have underlying causes other than depression, but they usually are comorbid with depression regardless of the underlying cause.

Adhd at its core is a lack of dopamine. Stimulants directly raise dopamine in the brain. What stimulants don’t do is change your behavior; stimulants change the hardware. Behavior change is up to you.

Starting the reversal of all that is like putting a supermorbidly obese person on a diet. All it does is start a trend. There will be other health problems and issues and medications and interventions that need to take place to fully heal if that’s even a possibility. You may need to treat the anxiety and depression and get them to manageable levels before you can ever start a stimulant, just like you can’t do gastric bypass surgery on someone who weighs 800 lb.

But the root cause, The start of everything, is some sort of neurodivergence.

The unwillingness of the mental health industry to investigate ADHD (and/or autism) at the outset, unless their patient demands it or mentions it, is a huge barrier to getting the real help that you need when this is the root cause.

One of the biggest tools you can have is knowing the patterns of behavior and information to connect these medical diagnoses and the language they use to your own experience so that you can communicate to a healthcare professional and get the help you need.

I’ve personally read the DSM-5 cover to cover. I don’t claim to be a medical expert and I retained almost none of it except for what was relevant to me and the people close to me. What I can say is that the diagnostic criteria in the DSM-5 for ADHD and autism are woefully inadequate. If you go see a mental healthcare professional that doesn’t specialize in these things, then the 10 points for each diagnosis that are listed in the DSM-5 inadequate tools for your healthcare professional to make an accurate diagnosis (or to accurately rule the diagnosis out).

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If the pan is hot enough and little enough wine is used, all the alcohol will quickly evaporate out. It actually tastes bad when that doesn’t happen; you’re supposed to let it stir around until that bit has boiled off.

That being said, the deglaze is there to get the fats and other caramelized components unstuck from the metal and reincorporate them into the meal. Any highly acidic liquid ought to do although it’ll change the flavor profile quite a bit depending on what you use. To be safe and stick to the spirit of what the recipe is trying to get you to do, you can use apple cider vinegar. But you’ll need a base to offset the acidity if you put in too much.

The difference here is that it takes discipline and training to use only those parts of C++. That requires humans in the loop to enforce those decisions. Humans are fallible.

If you make it impossible at the language level then there’s nothing to train. You just can’t do the thing unintentionally.

And they didn’t specify Rust; the aerospace industry has been using Ada for decades when it comes to mission critical stuff. Ada’s compiler has long had a similar notoriety to rust’s regarding the difficulty curve.

My favorite subplot in disco elysium

Ask Lopez what he thinks

Yeah I’m just gonna tell our group of 55+ year old mechanical engineers to learn Python; that’ll go over really well /s

First sale doctrine applied because the license is tied to the physical media.

If you were to make a copy of your DVD and then sell the physical media on to someone else- that’s always been considered piracy In the eyes of the law.

I’m not making value statements on what’s right and wrong here; I just want to clear up some of the misconceptions around how we currently talk about it.

My personal belief is that digital licenses should be transferrable just like physical ones, and that any company that wants to offer DRM such that a license key becomes invalid shall allow a license key to be transferred to another user without restriction.

On a deeper level, the US needs a rethink on the laws surrounding software and copyright, balancing two truths: digital content creators need to make money; and buying a license or right to use any form of digital media IS ownership, and should come with all the same protections as, e.g., buying a physical book.

You’ve never owned games. You’ve always owned a license to run a game. The license used to be tied to a piece of physical media. Now it’s not. But the underlying legal model never changed.

If someone is so socially inept and surrounded by equally socially inept people who don’t call out this behavior, then it’s possible they don’t have anyone who is part of society at large that would inform them of how their actions will be perceived by most members of the public.

I’m not commenting because it hurts me in any way. I’m commenting because this person is going to have a relatively difficult life socially if they continue with the behavior they currently exhibit.

Referring to yourself in the third person is cringe as fuck

Ass pennies?

They’re competing against games like Hollow Knight which offer 40+ hours of content for less money.

Looks like the inside of a neutrino detector